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Is there an advantage in adding Crawlera to a scrapy cloud account if I only want to do light scraping?

Does the Scrapy cloud account gets banned regularly?




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The main advantage is to reduce the likelihood of bans by routing your requests through different IPs. A job in Scrapy Cloud uses a single IP, it might not only be banned but also throttled. Some websites might be harder to scrape than others, so it depends on that. I would suggest you start with a C10 at $25/month for 150,000 requests/month and 10 concurrent requests.

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The main advantage is to reduce the likelihood of bans by routing your requests through different IPs. A job in Scrapy Cloud uses a single IP, it might not only be banned but also throttled. Some websites might be harder to scrape than others, so it depends on that. I would suggest you start with a C10 at $25/month for 150,000 requests/month and 10 concurrent requests.

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